Mired in Iraq and losing points at home, George W. Bush has initiated stepping stones to spread the American military Empire into the rest of the Middle East by turning Israel loose to lead the way. This has been the predictable plan for a long time and you are now watching it unfold before your eyes.

Information Clearing House (read) reports that the Israeli military made a power-point presentation to the Pentagon and officials in Washington more than a year ago outlining what’s happening today.

The main objective is, of course, the invasion of Iran, the second leg in the “axis of evil.” Lebanon and Syria are just prizes on the path of death and destruction. We will soon be following in support of Israel and extending our military into the few remaining countries currently getting along without our presence. It's a go-for-broke last ditch attempt to carry out the grand plan of domination in the Middle East.

And the American propaganda machine is falling in line just as they did in the “Attack Iraq” campaign. It began with the same old “yes we have no bananas” demand for the proof of a negative and has now proceeded to stories about how Iran is supplying the Hezbollah and Hamas with weapons.

No doubt, they’ll soon be telling us that the Iranians are sending fighter jets, helicopters, and bombers to bolster the mighty Hezbollah air force, ships and submarines for their unsinkable navy, and mini-nukes, biologicals, and depleted uranium poisons for their army to use against poor defenseless Israel that has only its American arsenal to depend upon. And the U.S. Congress just voted to rush more bombs to Israel (read).

Have we all lost our memories? Has something been put in the water to cause us to forget? Or is the country being run by children too young to know much about the Cold War and other things like the Bay of Tonkin and the "advisors" or "peacekeepers" we sent to Viet Nam?

How long can we stomach the idea that “terrorism” is something new, something never encountered before, something different than the old freedom fighters or underground resistance to occupation and tyranny? Does changing the words to things like “insurgencies” really make the world different? Is leaving our borders open a way to fight it?

Israel has “the right to defend itself,” but not Iran or North Korea. If the president of the most powerful nation in the world called you a member of the “axis of evil” what would you do?

Nuclear Deterrence:

For forty years we were locked in a Mexican standoff with a communist nation of extensive territory but half our population; a standoff where launching an attack by either side would result in mutual self destruction. Each party knew that an act of aggression on their part would result in retaliation that meant their own annihilation. Each side knew that despite early warning systems their cities couldn’t be evacuated, that destruction on both sides would be equally suicidal, and to start a war was insane.

Year after year, we engaged in an “arms race” because we couldn’t allow the “evil Empire” to have the advantage. Every time they improved their weapons of mass destruction, we had to improve ours and attempt to surpass them. The argument was that “nuclear deterrence” was essential to our defense and well being.

As recently as 2000, the New World Order published its manifesto from Bill Kristol, John Bolton, and others, called “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” or Pax Americana, wherein (page 18) the primary objective is stated as follows:

“America must defend its homeland. During the Cold War, nuclear deterrence was the key element in homeland defense; it remains essential. But the new century has brought with it new challenges. While reconfiguring its nuclear force, the United States also must counteract the effects of the proliferation of ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction that may soon allow lesser states to deter U.S. military action by threatening U.S. allies and the American homeland itself. Of all the new and current missions for U.S. armed forces, this must have priority.”

Is it any wonder that smaller nations would adopt this same policy or believe that the United States would at least hesitate before attacking a nation with nukes? Most fearful nations want nukes to protect themselves, to "deter" the aggressive Americans who are still the only ones to have used these horrible weapons.

But the Bush administration carries this even further by telling us that Iran would not hesitate to use nuclear weapons and it is reason for preemptive attack and invasion. Because Allah has an endless supply of vestal virgins, and has promised seventeen of them to each man who sacrifices his life by attacking us, these fanatics are perfectly willing to accept unlimited retaliation – so we must stop them before they develop “the bomb.”

We even produced movies like Stanley Krubick's "Dr. Stragelove" that made a joke of nuclear deterence or "how I learned to love the bomb." But these movies, "China Syndrome" is another without the humor of Peter Sellers, have been effectively banned from public broadcast while the powers that be make sure you're entertained with heroic films showing our boys soundly defeating incompetants.

Nuclear Secrets:

There is no such thing as a nuclear secret. Not only are there usually Judas insiders willing to sell out their country for personal profit, but in the late fifties it was rumored that a high school student had built an atomic bomb in his father’s garage.

To test this possibility, in the early sixties the U.S. government sponsored a project called “the Nth Country Experiment” in which two college physics students with no background in nuclear weaponry and only a high school understanding of nuclear fission were recruited as part of a project to see if they could build a hypothetical bomb. In less than three years they designed a workable plutonium bomb.

One of these students, David Dobson, who recently retired from teaching at the small quiet Beloit College where he spent his working life, said that: “We didn’t do anything that we couldn’t take from the open literature, and that’s even more available today …I feel that biological weapons in particular are much scarier …if there is going to be a nuclear attack an anti-ballistic missile system is not the way to thwart it. One of the most ridiculous things our government can fund is the anti-ballistic missile program. The reason it is a giant waste of money is that anybody that comes up with a nuclear weapon and wants to use it to create terror in the United States is not going to launch a missile. Much more fearful and more likely is to put it in an ocean-going container and ship it into a port and then it gets trucked halfway across the country before it blows up.”

The House of Representatives just voted to sell management of many of our ports to companies from Oman. This is the same deal that caused such public uproar, and even brought the border problem to the front burner five years late, the same deal that Dubai walked away from because of the public outcry and hostility. Your congressional representative’s rationale is that if we’re going to do business with friendly nations in the Middle East we’ve got to start somewhere (so why not start with one of our weakest links). Brilliant.

Wake up folks. The “war on terror” is a bogus reason for attacking people who object to our more than 725 military bases and bankers spread across the world and is the same sort of reaction that would be expected if China or Russia started building bases in America, in your backyard, with the approval and encouragement of our government.

I am not denying the fact that 9/11 was a heinous attack carried out by nineteen foreigners who entered and trained in our country, but I am saying that you should at least consider the possibility that it was a precision attack upon our international trade and military headquarters by frustrated "insurgents" with little other means of retaliation. Look where most of them came from, Saudi Arabia, a nation long overrun with our military "protectors."

You can also watch for the eventual establishment of a DMZ (De-Militarized Zone) between Lebanon and Israel just as we’ve held for years in North Korea – while we continue to argue that this doesn’t solve the “root” of the problem which, of course, is Iran’s sheltering and supplying terrorists.

Another thing:

If the recent explosion started because Hezbollah “kidnapped” two Israeli soldiers, where are the same Israeli “Special Ops” units that rescued hundreds held hostage at Entebbe while Carter’s attempt at the same fell on its face after Iran accused our embassy people of being spies, held them hostage, and claimed we were sheltering the deposed Shah of Iran in America, Lyford Cay on New Providence Island, the Bahamas, and eventually Panama where he died of ill health after running off with their treasury? And what happened to the money anyway?

One more:

How do you reconcile demands to pull out of Iraq with the fact that we are building the world’s largest embassy in Baghdad and dozens of new military bases spread across Iraq? All along, we could have pulled out just as fast as we went in and it would have been cheaper to give them hundreds of billions to rebuild the things we destroyed and which they are perfectly capable of managing and contracting out on their own. Today, civil war is flourishing and we are attempting to do the same things Saddam did to maintain order. Excluding those who see an opportunity to side with the U.S. and Halliburton, is the average Iraqi any better off than they were under Saddam? Much of Iraq still doesn't have electricity, but then neither does New Orleans.